Letters to Vijayendrasuri

Author(s): Kashinath Sarak
Publisher: Yashodharma Mandir

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Dr. Maurice Bloomfield The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore (U.S.A.)
(1) The Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, MD. Nov. 5, 1922
Honoured Sir,
Sometime ago I received from you an invitation to participate your praiseworthy efforts to diffuse knowledge on Jaina religion and literature. I take it for granted that you are acqua. inted with my little book "Life and Stories of the Jaina Savion Parcvanatha" and should like to publish in your series a short work on the Salibhadra Carita under the title "The Life of Salibhadra, a Jaina conversion story (or some similar title). will you kindly let me know whether you have use for it?
Especially the Caritas (Caritras) and dramas are in the line of my prime interest. I should be much obliged to you if you can spare any volumes of the Jaina-Yashovijaya Graathamala, , and would ask you if you should like to accept my work “Rigveda Repetitions volumes xx and xxiv of the Harward Oriental Series. I shall also send you from time my articles on Hindu fiction, much of which concerned selfsacrificing religion and through it to a harrassed world whose "Raudradhyana" is most certainly accumulating for it a heavy karma ( Karma - Gaurava ) to be lived down only by such efforts as yours and
that your devotees.